The Czech striker has to avoid social media. It played a part in his Hearts downfall.

Social media sent Vanecek down the wrong road

Before he’d even arrived in Gorgie, Vanecek was hyping up his arrival. He was doing countdowns to his arrival, putting up pictures of Edinburgh and displaying goal montages of himself online prior to his Hearts entrance.

The odd message of support for your new team is fine. Vanecek went too far, hyping himself up to be this messiah-like figure who’d be the answer to Hearts’ striker woes.

Social media was his downfall. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

In reality he was all talk. The Czech striker had turned up unfit and never really recovered from this. He’d set his own bar sky high via his Instagram and other forms of social media.

When it came down to the business of playing football Vanecek couldn’t cut it. It’s a good job he’s moved on as hopefully he can try and rebuild his career. On the flip side, Hearts now have an extra bit of room in the wage budget.

Vanecek never had bad intentions when posting to social media. It would appear though that through the excitement he built for himself, he set himself up for a nasty fall.